Word: worded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denounced F.D.R.'s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done a lot of exploring of Bill Green's mind, and I give you my word there is nothing there." Said Harry Truman of John L. Lewis: "I wouldn't appoint him dogcatcher...
Since then, according to refugees from Sinkiang who have made it to Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
Waste and graft are high. After Peru contracted to buy four submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp, word leaked out that the nephew of the navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel Castro agreed to pay $150 each for 24,000 Belgian automatic rifles worth $75 each. The fancy equipment is often short-lived. Days after Ecuador got three Canberra turbojet bombers, a mechanic cracked up two of them taxiing on the landing strip...
...last month. Student Barbara Jean Herin, 16, came home with The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, asked her mother to read aloud as she ironed. For Mrs. Herin, a devout Baptist, it was an unsettling experience. Out of her mouth came the strange words of one Ogden Nash: "Don't bother your head about sins of commission/ because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else/ you wouldn't be committing them." Barbara Jean's parents pored through the book, found at least 30 objectional poems. Most shocking were three by Walt Whitman (/ Sing...
...18th century German Poet Friedrich Hölderlin). The oddly assorted orchestra-which included four pianos for eight players, four harps, a glass harmonica, marimbaphone, xylophones, bongos, congas, gongs and no strings except for nine double basses-served less to score Sophocles' tragedy than to underscore it. Every word of dialogue took precedence over the music...